NRM Dinner Brochure

National Railway Museum Dinner 2012

Dinner 2012 31st May 2012

Business Events

Souvenir programme

Presented by

National Railway Museum Dinner 2012

Menu Canapés Chicken Caesar filo baskets Salmon and wasabi sushi rolls Yorkshire blue cheese scones with tomato chutney Crab thermidor tartlets

Guest list A

Name

Position

William Adam

NRM Patron

Janet Adam

Sparkling wine – Proseco DOC Bel Star NV (Vento, Italy) Bucks fizz Low Flying Scotsman (non-alcoholic fruit cocktail)

Starter Smoked salmon and asparagus parfait with rocket, lime pickled cucumber and red pepper dressing Asparagus and goat’s cheese parfait with red pepper dressing (v pre-order only)

Main course Roast Yorkshire Dales lamb with baby vegetables, fondant potato and a redcurrant and Madeira jus Yorkshire blue cheese and pecan nut pithivier with chive cream sauce, baby vegetables and fondant potatoes (v pre-order only)

Dessert Rhubarb and ginger chiboust with rhubarb jelly and honeycomb

Coffee and petit fours Port Port – Warres LBV 2006 (Douro, Portugal)

Wine for the evening Stellenrust Chenin Blanc 2010 (Stellenbosch, South Africa) and Domaine La Croix Belle Syrah 2011 (Cotes de Thongue, France) Bottles of Yorkshire water

Programme 18.30 19.25

Drinks reception on Station Hall Promenade Welcome from MC, Nigel Harris, Managing Editor & Events Director, RAIL magazine 19.30 Dinner is served 21.10 Coffee, petit fours, cheese and port served 21.15 The Loyal Toast, followed by speeches 21.45 Pay bar to open ** 23.20 Last orders at the bar 23.20 Bar closes 00.00 Carriages at City Entrance ** Timing approximate the pay bar is situated near the Signal Box

Company NRM Patron

James Airey

Business Development Manager

Siemens

Saf Akram

Head of Traincrew Control

CrossCountry

Cllr James Alexander Leader

City of York Council

Richard Allan

Director

Mark Allatt

Chairman

The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust

Peter Anderson

Managing Director

Balfour Beatty

Claire Ansley

Customer Service Director Stagecoach Supertram

Paul Appleton

Publisher

Key Publishing

Mrs Appleton

Editor

Hornby Magazine

Stephen Arthur

Head of Drivers

East Midlands Trains

Nigel Ash

Director, Infrastructure Consulting

Network Rail

Adrian Ashby

Owner

Adrian Ashby Painter and Decorator

Chris Austin

Secretary to APPG

Heritage Railways

David Azema

Deputy CEO

SNCF

B Peter Babbage

Guest

Susan Babbage

Guest

Dr Michael Bailey MBE

Consultant in Early Railway Technology

Simon Ball

Head of Freight - Rail Services

Neil Bamford

Engineering Director

London Midland

John Bamforth

Director of Finance and Resources

Direct Rail Services

Jim Barclay

Interim Chief Executive and Director General

Merseytravel

Martin Barnett

Programme Manager

Eversholt Rail (UK)

Andy Barr

Senior Vice President, Head of Maintenance

Hitachi Rail Europe

Roger Bastin

Colas Rail

Friends of the NRM

Peter Batty

Friends of the NRM

Rob Baxter

Managing Director

Railcare

Hugh Bayley

MP

York Central

Martin Beable

Fleet Production Manager Chiltern Railways

Pat Beijer

Strategic Business Manager

Northern Rail

Tim Bell

Managing Director

Arriva Trains Wales

Jonathan Bell

Fleet Manager

Porterbrook Leasing

Cath Bellamy

Managing Director

First Hull Trains

Philip Benham

General Manager

North Yorkshire Moors Railway

Lesley Benham

Friends of the NRM

Ian Bevan

Managing Director

Northern Rail

Dr Robert Bewley

Director of Operations

Heritage Lottery Fund

Michael Binyon

Correspondent

The Times

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Director

North Norfolk Railway

Jane Cole

Business Manager for North Virgin Trains England and Scotland

Ian Blatchford

Director

NMSI

Terry Collins

Tom Blenkinsop

MP

Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland

Corporate Director of Neighbourhood Services

Durham County Council

Matt Collins Tracy Commons

Head of Business Development and Partnership

Welcome to Yorkshire

Chris Connelly

Director of Commercial & Direct Rail Services Business Services

Andrew Boagey

UK Branch Director

Systra

Mary Bonar

Consultant Rail

Stephenson Harwood

Dominic Booth

Managing Director UK

Abellio Group

Tim Boryer

Underwriter

Travelers

Noel Connolly

Senior Project Manager

Network Rail

Barry Cook

Route Operations Manager

First TransPennine Express

Karen Boswell

Managing Director

East Coast

Andy Bottom

General Manager

West Anglia

Rupert BrennanBrown

Director

Rail Positive Relations

Sir Ron Cooke

Andrew Bridge

Distribution Director

Heidelberg Cement

Paul Cooke

Steve Bridge

Technical Engineering Manager

EDF Energy

Bradley Cooper

Finance Director

First TransPennine Express

Grand Central Railway

Andy Cooper

Managing Director

CrossCountry

Contract Support Engineer Porterbrook Leasing

BAM Nuttall

Paul Cooper

Rob Brighouse

Managing Director

Chiltern Railways

Mark Cooper

Station Manager

Chiltern Railways

Richard Brooks

Commercial Director

London Midland

Andy Cope

Engineering Director

East Coast

Malcolm Brown

CEO

Angel Trains

Sir Neil Cossons

Stefanie Browne

PA to Nigel Harris

RAIL

Former Director of the Science Museum

National Railway Museum

Paul Bunting

European Development Director

SNCF

Mark Cowlard

MD Rail Solutions

Atkins

Phil Cox

Lafarge

Lara Burch

Partner

Osborne Clarke

Aggregates Business Manager North

Tony Burgess

Client Executive Network Rail/ First Group

Atos

Stephen Crawley

Managing Director

The Caledonian Brewing Co Ltd

Matt Burgess

Fleet Services Manager

Hitachi Rail Europe

Piers Croft

Service Manager

Heathrow Express

Alstom

Vicky Cropper Bauer Media

Alistair Briggs

Stephen Burgin

UK Country President

Tim Burleigh

Relationship Development Eversholt Rail (UK) Manager

Sarah Crown

Commercial Director, Transport and B2B

Ben Burton-Brown

Account Director DB/TNT

Atos

Len Cruddas

Colin Burtt

Finance Manager

Ffestiniog Railway

CEO Leeds, York and North Chamber of Yorkshire Commerce

Kevin Busath

International Finance Director

Iowa Pacific Holdings

Tony Bush

Director of Engineering & Terminals

Direct Rail Services

Neil Butters

Secretary

Railway Heritage Committee

Guy Dangerfield Huw Davies

Class Engineer

Northern Rail

ACoRP

Bridget Davies

Managing Director

Minster FM

John Davies

Group Account Director

Bombardier

Sandy Davis

Event Manager

RAIL

Neil Buxton

General Manager

Jane Buxton

C John Cameron CBE

4

Visit York/ York Civic Trust

Past Member

British Railways Board

Gillian Cruddas MBE Chief Executive

Visit York

Andrew Cruttenden

Eversholt Rail (UK)

Account Manager

D Passenger Issues Manager Passenger Focus

Maria Dean

Customer Account Director Bombardier

Warrick Dent

General Manager

Network Rail

Zena Dent

Programme Manager New Build

Eversholt Rail (UK)

Richard Devall

Head of Commercial

Colas Rail

Brian De Vere

Business Partner

North Yorkshire Financial Solutions Centre

Roger Dickinson

Regional Director for Scotland and the North East

Network Rail

Martin Carr

Assistant Fleet Manager

Porterbrook Leasing

Richard Carrington

Head of Projects & Procurement

Eversholt Rail (UK)

Derek Carter

Managing Director

Portakabin

Susie Cawood

Head of York and North Yorkshire Chamber

Chamber of Commerce

Alan Chaplin

Chief Operating Officer

Northern Rail

Peter Charlton

Editor

Yorkshire Post

Mark Chestney

Fleet and Infrastructure Manager

Heathrow Express

Lothar Dill

MD Commuter Rail Siemens AG

Siemens

Brian Christie

Operations Manager

First Hull Trains

Michelle Dixon

Commercial Director

Hugh Clancy

Commercial Director

First Group

Eggborough Power Ltd

Graeme Clark

Sales Manager - Metro, Coaches and Light Rail

Siemens

Nigel Dobbing

Managing Director

Railway Touring Company

Alan Clark

Fleet Engineer

Porterbrook Leasing

Ken Docherty

Fleet Manager

First ScotRail

Kevin Clarke

Maintenance Manager

Siemens

Barry Dodd

Chairman

GSM Group Ltd

Roger Cobbe

Policy Director

Arriva UK Trains

Alistair Dormer

CEO

Agility Trains

Keith Doughty

Service Delivery Director

First Hull Trains

Stuart Draper

Engineering Director

Northern Rail

Bernard Garner

Sarah Drummond

Managing Editor

BBC Radio York

Christopher Garnett

First Capital Connect

David Gaster

Comercial Director

Great Rail Journeys

Theresa Gault

Sponsorship and Events Manager

First ScotRail

Dave Gausby

Director of Rail Strategy

First Group

Chris Gee

Performance Manager

Network Rail

Richard Gibson

Head of Communications CrossCountry

Robin Gisby

Managing Director Network Operations

Network Rail

Head of Commuter Rail UK

Siemens

Ian Duncan-Santiago Projects Director

E Paul Emberley

Director of Communications

East Coast

Sean English

General Manager

Grand Central

John Evans

Chairman

Scottish Railway Preservation Society

Dave Evans

BAM Nuttall

Richard Evans

Museum Director

Beamish

Merl Evans

Chief Design Engineer

Bachmann

Brell Ewart

Whitehouse Construction

Director General

NRM Advisory Board

Mrs Gisby Gordon Glass Christoph Goetz Andrew Goodman Alistair Gordon

Moveright International Ltd Managing Director

Andreas Goss

F

Keolis (UK) NMSI Trustees

Lord Grade CBE

NMSI Trustees

Emma Farley

Marketing & PR Manager

Carl Farrar

National Delivery Manager Colas Rail

Bryan Gray CBE DL

Catherine Farrell

Senior Press Officer

National Railway Museum

Stuart Gray

Head of Tax

Arcus Infrastructure Partners LLP

NRM Advisory Board

Simon Gray

Chief Executive Officer

Arcus Infrastructure Partners LLP

Director of Regional and Economic Affairs

University of Manchester

Julie Green

External Affairs Manger

Bechtel

Mick Green

Northern Rail

Katie Ferrier

Head of Supplier Engagement

Network Rail

Fleet Commercial Manager

Wendy Filer

Marketing & Business Support Manager

Eversholt Rail (UK)

Lord Richard Faulkner of Worcester Peter Fell

National Railway Museum

Nexus

Barry Graham

Business Development Director

Northern Rail NRM Advisory Board

Brian Greenwood

NRM Advisory Board

Alan Greer

Manager

STEAM

Steve Gregory

Director

British American Railways

Stuart Griffin

Operations Director

London Overground

Carolyn Griffiths

Chief Inspector

RAIB

The Sheriff of York Cllr Paul Firth

The Sheriff of York

Sheriff's Lady Mrs Jenny Firth

Sheriff’s Lady

Nadine Fischer

Commercial Manager

Siemens

Susan Fisher

Director of Development

NMSI

East Midlands Managing Director

Oval Insurance Broking Limited

Bill Ford

Managing Director

Great Central Railway

Matt Foster

Customer Relations Manager

CrossCountry

Charles Hammond

David Fox

Global Head of Transport

Turner and Townsend

Glyn France

Maintenance Manager

Siemens

Jean Franczyk

Director

MOSI

Gary Franklin

Managing Director - Trains Venice Simplon& Cruises Orient-Express

Mike Hart OBE

Brian Freemantle

Head of Rolling Stock, Commercial

Dave Hatfield

Fleet Director

Martin Frobisher

Route Managing Director, Network Rail East Midlands

Grand Central Railway RAF

Operations Standards Manager

Flight Lieutenant Jack Hawkins

Flight Lieutenant

Paul Frost

Dorothy Gregory

Clive Fletcher-Wood Stephen Foot

Paul Furze-Waddock Business Development Director

Department for Transport

First TransPennine Express Virgin Trains

G Jamie Gale Kevin Gale

Account Director, Network Rail

Dr Douglas Gurr

NMSI Trustees

H David Haarhaus

Sales Manager

Bachmann

Philip Haigh

Business Editor

RAIL

Ruud Haket

Managing Director

Greater Anglia Forth Ports

Garcia Hanson

Executive Vice President

British American Railway Services

Nigel Harris

Managing Editor & Events RAIL Director

Matthew Harris

Accountant and Company Secretary

Severn Valley Railway Railway Wheelset & Brake Ltd

Ernie Hawkins

RAF

Kosuke Hayakawa

Manager

Central Japan Railways

Stephen Haynes

Managing Director

Colas Rail

Avril Heins

Fleet Modernisation Project Manager

Heathrow Express

Cllr Simon Henig

Leader

Durham County Council

Atos

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Retired Squadron Leader

RAF

Richard Jones

General Manager

Bodmin & Wenford Railway

Chris Hext

Head of Occupational Health & Safety

Network Rail

Mike Jones

Minority Shareholder

First Hull Trains

Stephen Joseph

Chief Executive

Campaign for Better Transport

Sheldon Hicks

Director

David Higgins

Chief Executive

Mrs Higgins

Guest

Jeremy Higgins

Customer Service Director CrossCountry

Tim Kavanagh

Finance Director

East Coast

Steve Higham

MD Rail Engineering Projects Atkins

Denis Kaye

York Council

Roger HighďŹ eld

Director of External Affairs NMSI

Head of Business Development

John Hillier

Director

The Bahamas Locomotive Society

Bob Kemp

New Trains Delivery Manager

First Capital Connect

David Hirst

Regional Correspondent

ITV Yorkshire

Lauren Kendrick

Event Co-ordinator

RAIL

Alan Hoare

Senior Product Manager

Travelers

Mary Kenny

Chief Executive OfďŹ cer

Eversholt Rail (UK)

Peter Hodges

Operations Director

May Gurney

David Kierton

Business Development Director

Unipart Rail

Michael Holden

Chief Executive

Directly Operated Railways

Chris Kimberley

Business Development Director

Serco

Bob Holland

Managing Director

Arriva UK Trains

Nigel King

Fleet Manager

Hitachi Rail Europe

Jeff Hoogesteger

Chief Executive

Abellio Group

Simon Kirby

Managing Director, Infrastructure Projects,

Network Rail

Network Rail

K

Mike Hogg

James Hookham Tom Hopkins

FTA

Art Director/Photographer Kick Creative

Mark Knowles

Managing Director

Southeastern

David Horne

Managing Director

East Midlands Trains

Brian Knowlman Simon Kohler

Marketing Manager

Hornby

Guy Horstmann

Head of Control

Chiltern

Matt Kuzemko

May Gurney

Nick Hortin

New Trains Director

First ScotRail

Business Development Director

Tim Howard

Assistant Underwriter

Travelers

Stephen Howell

Head of Sport & Leisure

Durham County Council

Tony Lacy

Global Business Development Strategy Transport

Atos

Head of Fleet Performance South West Trains

L

Divisional Director

Oval Insurance Broking Limited

Graham Hubbard

Managing Director

Bachmann

Glen Laishley

Jodie Hudson

Sales Executive

Bauer Media

Dr Derek Langslow CBE

Tony Hughes

Transport Policy & Planning Glasgow City Manager, Development & Council Regeneration Services Major Donor

Ian Humphreys

Head of Performance

Rt Hon the Lord Mayor of York Cllr Keith Hyman

Lord Mayor of York

Lady Mayoress Mrs Karen Hyman

Lady Mayoress

Alex Hynes

Managing Director

First TransPennine Express

Go-Ahead

I Tom Ingall

Reporter

Ms Caroline Inglis-Taylor

Guest

Duncan Irons

MVA Projects Director

BBC Yorkshire

LNWR Friends of the NRM

Chris Huband

David Humphreys

Tony Lawton

Major Donor

Nick Leaf

Fabrication Cell Manager Unipart Rail

Louise Leaf

Guest

Denise Lennox

Bid Director

Arriva UK Trains

Chris Lester

Events Director, Transport and B2B

Bauer Media

Steve Levin

Finance Director

Atkins

Paul Lewin

Managing Director

Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways

Kevin Limb

Head of Asset Management

Eversholt Rail (UK)

David Ling

High Speed and Outstations

Southeastern

Simon Linnett

NRM Advisory Board

Simon Lomax

Fleet Manager

Porterbrook Leasing

Graham Love

Chairman

Eversholt Rail (UK)

Dennis Lovett

Public Relations Manager Bachmann

Alan Lowe

Group Financial Controller Angel Trains

Tim Lucas

Managing Director Transport and B2B

Bauer Media

Claudia Jackson-Berettoni

George Lynn

CFO

Angel Trains

Hilary Jarvis

Mike Lyons

Project Director

Network Rail

Colin Jeffery

Adrian Lyons

MVA Birmingham

J Ashley Jackson

Water Colour Artist and Author

Wayne Jenner

Engineer Director

Southeastern

Mikalia Johnson

Editorial Assistant

Hornby Magazine

Mark Johnson

Engineering Manager

Ramsgate

Mike Johnson

Contracts Manager Hargreaves UK Energy and Commodities Services Ltd

Christopher Jones

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Steve Kitching

Head of Engineering Support Services

Friends of the NRM

M Stewart MacPherson Route Delivery Director

Network Rail

Roger Manns

Nene Valley Railway

Shirley Marland

Director and Hon Civil Engineer

East Coast

Graham Marr Cllr David Marshall

Chief Operating Officer Chairman

Arcus Infrastructure Partners LLP

David Moreland

Beamish

Andrea Morgan

Client Executive Redspottedhanky, RSP

Atos

Phil Morrell

Operation Manager

Unipart Rail

Kate Morrell

Guest

Richard Morrice

Managing Director

Warrant Officer Dave Warrant Officer Marshall

RAF

Jeff Marshall

Director of Operations and Compliance

Direct Rail Services

David Martin

Chief Executive

Arriva

Tim Mason

Customer Account Director

Bombardier

Glenn Masters

Trust Delay Attributer & Short Term Resource Planner

Chiltern

Yvonne Masters

RAF

Eddie Mathieson Commercial Manager

Volker Rail HRA

Professor Richard Morris

People Energies University of Huddersfield

Mrs Jane Morris

Guest

Squadron Leader Ian Morton

Retired Squadron Leader

RAF

Chris Moss

Head of Engineering Strategy

Eversholt Rail (UK)

Dr George Muirhead

Heather Mayfield Gavin Mayor

Pre Contract Director

David Morgan

Locomotion

Science Museum

Steve Murphy

Managing Director

Siemens

Anthony Murphy

Customer Account Director Bombardier

London Overground

Lord Bill McAlpine Lady Judy McAlpine Ian Macbeth

NRM Patron

N

Clare McCartney

HR Director

East Midlands Trains

Akihiko Nakamura

General Manager

Richard McClean

Managing Director

Grand Central Railway

Central Japan Railways

Francesco Nale

Managing Director

Arcus Infrastructure Partners LLP

David Naylor

Guest

Jonathan Newby

Chief Operating Officer

Douglas McCormick Group MD (UK) Rail

Atkins

Dougie McDonald

Divisional Director, UK Transport Planning, MVA Consultant

MVA Edinbrugh

Wesley McKee

Project Director for IEP

VolkerFitzpatrick

Lady Sheila Newby

Allan McLean

Communications Manager, Scotland & North England

Virgin Trains

Terry Nicholson

Chief Superintendent

British Transport Police

Russalka Nikolov

Director

David McLoughlin

Finance & Commercial Director

Network Rail

DB Museum, Nurnberg

Sir Howard Newby

NMSI NRM Advisory Board NRM Advisory Board

O

Andrew McNaughton Technical Director

HS2

Andrew McNaughton Chief Operating Officer

Balfour Beatty

Tim O’Toole

Chief Executive

First Group

Neil McNicholas

Managing Director

DRS

Doug Oakervee

Chairman

Steven McNicholas

Compliance Director

McNicholas Construction

Laing O’Rourke Construction

Steve Oerton

Martin McTague

Regional Vice Chairman

Federation of Small Businesses in the North East

Andy Meadows

HR Director

East Coast

Bob Meanley

Chief Engineer

Tyseley Locomotive Works Ltd

Alistair Meanley

Works Manager

Tyseley Locomotive Works Ltd

Harry Medcalf

NRM Patron

Graham Meiklejohn Head of Communications DB Schenker Andy Mellors Dr Rainer Mertens

Deputy Managing Director Deputy Director

Stephen Middleton

First Great Western DB Museum, Nurnberg Stately Trains

David Middleton

Transport Scotland

Diane Middleton

Guest

David Miller

Project Director - TRSP

Kathryn O’Brien

East Coast Head of Franchise Development

First TransPennine Express

Phil Pacey

New Projects Director

Virgin Trains

Justin Page

Route Infrastructure Maintenance Director

Network Rail

David Painter

Director Route Asset Management

Network Rail

Sara Palmer

Guest

P

Susan Palmer

NRM Advisory Board

Keith Palmer

Head of Performance, Rail Development

Darren Park

Regional Driver Manager CrossCountry

Bill Parker Lt Col Huw Parker

Siemens

National Express

NRM Patron Campaign Infrastructure Deputy Team Leader for Defence Equipment and Support

MOD Abbey Wood

Sergeant Gary Millman Sergeant

RAF

Shaun Mills

Chief Executive Officer

Alpha Trains Ltd

Frank Paterson

Steve Mitchell

Acting Fleet Manager

Greater Anglia

Brian Paulding

Nissar Mohammed

Business Unit Manager

BAM Nuttall

Head of Engineering Compliance Services

Michael Pead

Internal Communications c2c Manager

Richard Molloy

Engineering Director

Atkins

Steve Montgomery

Managing Director

First ScotRail

John Moore

CEO Rail Division

Balfour Beatty

Carol Penn

Dave Moore

Relationship Director

Lloyds TSB Commercial

Paul Phillips

NRM Advisory Board Southeastern

Friends of the NRM Account Manager Special Trains

DB Schenker Rail

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National Railway Museum Dinner 2012 Mark Phillips

Operations Director, Rail Development

National Express

Prof Paul Salveson

Visiting Professor

University of Huddersfield

Matt Phillips

Head of Sales

ESG- Rail

Howard Sanger

John Pink

Senior Vice President Retail & Services

Atos

Business Development Manager

McNicholas Construction

Peter Sargant

Head of Rail Development Centro

Garry Plant

Colour Archive & Restoration

Copal Paints and Varnish

Andy Saunders

Business Development Manager

Colas Rail

Pamela Porter

Events Officer

Locomotion

Andy Savage

Executive Director

Len Porter

Chief Executive

RSSB

Railway Heritage Trust

Paul Prentice

News and Features Writer

RAIL

Danny Savage

Broadcast Journalist

BBC News

Kieran Preston OBE

Director General

Metro

Bryan Scarfe

May Gurney

Ian Prosser

Chief Inspector of Railways Office of Rail and Director Railway Safety Regulation

Director of Engineering Services

Dr Andre Schoen

Director of Infrastructure

Siemens Mobility

Simon Purves

Chief Operating Officer

Chris Scoggins

Chief Executive

National Rail Enquiries

Andrew Scott CBE

Former Director

NRM

Eversholt Rail (UK)

Q Darren Quill

Class Engineer

Northern Rail

Lawrie Quinn

Rail Projects Delivery Manager

Bechtel

Strasbourg

PriceWaterhouse Coopers Managing Director

Siemens

Laura Sharman-Reid Account Manager

Eversholt Rail (UK)

Dr Richard Shephard Director of Development DL

York Minster Fund

Lis Sheppard

Account Director National Atos Express

Derek Rayner

Adrian Shooter

Non Executive Director

Pete Redding

Fleet Manager

Siemens

Barbara Shooter

Guest

John Reddyhoff

Head of Engineering

Eversholt Rail (UK)

Matt Short

Aberfield Communications

Tim Shoveller

Managing Director

South West Trains

James Shuttleworth

Chief Operating Officer

West Coast Railway Company

RAF

Sarah Shuttleworth

Guest

Mayor William Shuttleworth

Guest

Paul Ravenhill

Account Director East Coast Atos

Susanne Rawson

Guest

Phil Reed Bill Reeve

Director, Commercial Unit Transport Scotland

Squadron Leader Stuart Reid

Retired Squadron Leader

Kenton Robbins

Regional Director for the Institute of Directors Yorkshire & Humber

NRM Patron

Jonathan Roberts

Finance Director

CrossCountry

David W Robertson

Driver Manager

First ScotRail

Peter Robinson

Customer Relationship Executive

Martin Robinson Ken Robinson

Wabtec Rail East Coast

Andrew Skinner Alan Skipper

Associate

RPS

Mark Smith

Business Development Director

Signalling Solutions Ltd

Network Rail

Ian Smith

Safety and Operations Director

East Midlands Trains

Head of Commercial

Network Rail

Bill Smith

Director of Specialist Business

Volker Rail

Graham Smith

Secretary

Rail Delivery Group

Emma Rodgers

Press Officer

National Railway Museum

Nigel Smith

Managing Director Construction

DB Schenker Rail

Will Rogers

Head of Fleet

CrossCountry

Mark Smith

Deputy Chairman

Alan Ross

Director, Route Asset Management

Network Rail

Heritage Railway Association

Steve Smith

Fleet Manager

Siemens

Mike Ross

PA to the Managing Director

East Coast

Tim Smith

News Editor

BBC Yorkshire

John Smith

Managing Director

GB Railfreight West Coast Railway Company

Friends of the NRM

Mark Ruddy

Route Managing Director, Network Rail Sussex

David Smith

Managing Director

James Rudman

Writer

Countryside Magazine

Tina Smith

Guest

Vicky Smith

Guest

Ben Ruse

Director of Media

HS1

Neal Smith

Head of Communications East Coast

Paul Rushton

Head of Safety

East Midlands Trains

Gemma Sneyd

Senior Press Officer

National Railway Museum

Friends of the NRM

Allan Spence

Director, Safety Strategy, Safety & Sustainable Development

Network Rail

Jayne Spence

Head of Corporate Communications

Rural Payments Agency

Dr Fiona E Spiers

Head of Heritage Lottery Fund

Heritage Lottery Fund Yorkshire and the Humber

George Rutter Paul Rutter

Route Infrastructure Maintenance Director

Network Rail

S Derek Salter

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Richard Scott Steve Scrimshaw

R Ms Nawel Rafik-Elmrini Deputy Mayor

Margaret Scott

Mondaine Watches

Professor Edward M Spiers Tony Steele

Regional Broking Manager

Greg Stevenson

University of Leeds

Dave Walker

Oval Insurance Broking Limited

Steve Walker

Fleet Director SWT

Gary Walker

Operations Competence First ScotRail Manager

Eversholt Rail (UK)

Paul Stevenson Elaine Stewart

First TransPennine Express

Michael Wallace MBE

Friends of the NRM

Brian Walton Vice President Transport

James Stewart

Siemens

BAM Nuttall

Atos

Mick Walton

Head of Retail Sales

London Transport

RAF

Rick Warburton

Managing Partner

Yorkshire Bank

Rob Warnes

Performance and Planning Director

Northern Rail Eversholt Rail (UK)

Alan Stilwell

Director of Operations

Merseytravel

Adam Strachan

Grand Central and EMU Manager

Northern Rail Lee Warsop

Group General Counsel

Peter Strachan

Director General, Major Projects

Department for Transport

Lee Wasnidge

Director

Dr Pete Waterman OBE DL

Chairman

LNWR Heritage Co

Keighley and Worth Valley Railway

Helen Waters

Production Director

CrossCountry

Paul Watson

Operations Director

First TransPennine Express

Matthew Stroh

Julian Sturdy

MP

Neil Sutehall

Business Strategy Director J Murphy & Son

Mr Terry Suthers, MBE DL Jerry Swift

Head of Community Rail

York

Mr John Watson CBE Councillor

York Archaeological Trust

North Yorkshire County Council

Laurie Waugh

Communications Manager

Siemens

Network Rail

John Weidner

Senior Project Manager

Systra

Andrea Wesson

Senior Manager Treasury & Risk Management

Eversholt Rail (UK)

Chris Wheeldon

Divisional Director Rail

Volker Fitzpatrick

Steve White

Service Director

Siemens

Simon Whitehorn

Area General Manager, West Coast South

Network Rail

Carolyn Swift

T Lili Tabiner

Funding and Development Manager

Great Central Railway

Stephen Taylor

Logistics Manager

Drax Power

Sergeant Bramwell Tempest-Roe

Sergeant

RAF

Michael Whitehouse Chairman

Birmingham Railway society

Bevis Thomas

Head of Train Planning

Chiltern Railways

John Whitehurst

Route Infrastructure Maintenance Director, Anglia

Network Rail

David Thomas

Friends of the NRM

Giles Thomas

Head of Systems Integration

David Whitley

Head of Marketing

London Midland

Clive Thomas

Head of Commercial and Eversholt Rail (UK) Business Services

Cllr Keith Whitmore

Councillor

Manchester City Council

Sharon Thorburn

Front of House Officer

Locomotion

Rob Whyte

Sales Director

Alstom

Head of Relationship Development

Eversholt Rail (UK)

Michael Wild

Outside Events

Key Publishing

Tom Wild

Project Manager

Eversholt Rail (UK)

Ms Delma Tomlin MBE

Director

Early Music Centre

Ray Towell

Curator

NRM York (Retired)

Kevin Tribley

Chief Operating Officer

Angel Trains

Lisa Williams

Philip Trickey

Research

Copal Paints and Varnish

Health and Safety Manager

Mid-Hants Railway

Chief Constable

British Transport Police

Steve Timothy

Andrew Trotter

Jenny Wilkinson Alan Williams

Francis Townend

John Trigg MBE

Network Rail

Brass Agency Chairman

Esk Valley Railway Development Company

Rachel Wilson

HR Business Partner

Siemens

Amanda Wilson

Head of Coal

GB Railfreight

Phil Wilson

MP

Sedgefield

Gareth Woodhouse

Commercial Development Manager Redspottedhanky

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Bill Woolley

Director of City Strategy, CoYC

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South Durham Enterprise Agency

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Jason Wade

Head of Performance

Northern Rail

Andrew Walker

Director

Walker Warren

Maria Zywica

Council of Europe, Strasbourg Human Resources Director

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NRM Dinner - Thursda y Introduction by Steve Davies MBE, Director, National Railway Museum

s Museum Director it gives me great pleasure to host the relaunched National Railway Museum Annual Dinner.

It is a major policy objective for the Museum to get closer to the modern industry. We want to present the railway of today and tomorrow to our visitors, not just the past. With that in mind, I am delighted that the dinner is being generously supported by our principal sponsors Network Rail, Siemens and Eversholt Rail Group, with further support from Travelers, Arriva, Abellio & Northern and Systra.

The National Railway Museum wants to position itself as a central focus for debate within the industry, providing you all with an attractive and neutral space to aid you in developing your business. In addition, we want to enhance the level of co-operation between us, and work more closely together.

I recognise that in promoting a symbiotic relationship with the industry, I need to answer the key question: “what’s in it for you?”

I hope, therefore, that you will see, through our seriousness in engaging with you all and through the adjustment to our mission, which now explicitly includes the promotion of railways as a form of transport, that we do indeed want to help you in what you can deliver today and would like to deliver tomorrow. We, in turn, hope that you will be able to support our ambitious plans.

I am today able to announce that it is our intention to develop a new gallery, dedicated to the modern industry, which will showcase both the public-facing elements of the modern railway and provide a rolling opportunity for the industry to promote what it is doing and its exciting plans for the future. I look forward to sharing these ideas with you over the coming months.

For now, please sit back and enjoy this dinner, in quite outstanding surroundings that pay tribute to our shared and glorious past. I look forward to seeing you again at our next dinner in a year’s time.

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Become a Patron of the National Railway Museum As a Patron you will be at the heart of the Museum, enjoying our world class hospitality and intellectual resources. Patrons have exclusive access to Britain’s National Collection and our expert curatorial staff, as well as a tailor-made programme of events and dinners.

Your annual patronage makes a real difference to our work, ensuring we are able to tell the story of the railways.

Your support helps us to inspire the next generation and influence the way people connect with the National Railway Museum now and in the future. There has never been a more exciting time to become a Patron of the National Railway Museum. Patronage levels start at just ÂŁ500 a year.

For more details contact The National Railway Museum, Development Team, Leeman Road, York YO26 4XJ. Tel: 01904 685774. development@nrm.org.uk

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Guest speaker

David Higgins Chief Executive. Network Rail avid was appointed chief executive of Network Rail on September 28 2010, with effect from February 1 2011. He had been a non-executive director of Network Rail since April 1 2010.

Prior to joining NR, David was with the Olympic Delivery Authority. He had been appointed chief executive designate of the ODA in December 2005, becoming chief executive with effect from March 30 2006.

Born in Australia in 1954, David graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Sydney, and holds a Diploma from the Securities Institute of Australia.

Following graduation, he worked on major engineering and building projects in the UK and Africa. He returned to Australia in 1981, working on major construction projects.

In 1985 he joined the Lend Lease Group, an international property and construction company, as development manager.

In 1990 he was appointed chief executive of Lend Lease Property Services, and in 1995 he was appointed managing dDirector & group chief executive, remaining in the post until 2002.

David then spent three years as chief executive of English Partnerships, the Government’s national regeneration agency, before joining the Olympic Delivery Authority.

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History of the NRM It all started with Rocket in 1862… and is now a national success story

efore the National Railway Museum was in existence, the Science Museum in London - then known as the Patent Office Museum - started its collection of railway artefacts by acquiring Rocket in 1862.

From the late 19th century, railway companies began preserving their past. The most prolific was the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), which in 1927 opened a public museum in York, dedicated to railways.

By the end of the 1930s, the Great Western Railway (GWR), the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS), the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) and the Southern Railway (SR) had all collected significant quantities of railway-related material.

But it wasn’t until 1948, when the newly formed BR took over the 'Big Four', that these collections were all brought together.

1951 saw the appointment of a ‘curator of historical relics’ of the nationalised transport industries. A collecting policy could now be implemented to increase the nation’s collection of railway artefacts

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- anything fitting the requirements of the policy (and more importantly relevant to telling the story of the train) – could be listed for the collection. As well as the existing York Railway Museum at Queen Street, British Railways opened the Museum of British Transport in Clapham, South London, and worked with Swindon Council to open a museum there.

Following the Beeching Report BR sought to stop unprofitable activities, including running museums.

The consequent 1968 Transport Act encouraged BR to work with the Science Museum to develop a National Railway Museum, to house the massive and ever-expanding collection.

The National Railway Museum opened in 1975.

The huge former steam locomotive depot, only 700 metres from York Minster, was an ideal site for a National Railway Museum and, following its conversion and opening as the very first national museum outside London, the museum was an immediate success with the public.

It’s much bigger than the original one, because the planners had a brainwave of converting an old steam engine shed. You can still see one of the turntables, with all the stub tracks off, where engines were serviced between turns of duty.

Left: Watercolour by Edna Lumb, showing the Weatherhill Winding Engine being installed in the Great Hall, 1975.

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Left: Locomotives around the turntable in York motive power depot, about 1950.

Before it became a museum, the Great Hall had been one of nine engine sheds in York. Built in 1877, the shed had been used to house, clean and prepare steam locomotives for service. Heavy-duty maintenance and repairs were carried out further afield, in locomotive works such as Darlington or Doncaster.

On April 29 1942 the York sheds, along with Yorkshire station, were badly damaged in a German air raid. Both sites were soon back in action after the raid, although one locomotive (named Sir Ralph Wedgwood) was destroyed.

Shed number four was used for working engines until 1967, and after the end of steam in 1968 it was used to store redundant locomotives. When the National Railway Museum opened in 1975 the shed became known as the Great Hall.

Since 1975 the Museum has been extended on a number of occasions. In 1990, the Station Hall opened across Leeman Road in York’s former railway goods depot, nearly doubling the size of the museum in the process. This development won the Museum of the Year Award in 1990.

Since then more buildings have been added. Today there’s even a link to the live railway running just outside. And inside there’s a collection of three million items - everything from a Victorian uniform button to a high-speed Bullet Train.

The former diesel depot adjacent to the Great Hall had been added as a store, and in 1999 this was rebuilt to become The Works, providing public access to the Museum’s collections, stores and workshops, as well as to a viewing gallery overlooking York Station.

The success of The Works led, in part, to the Museum gaining the European Museum of the Year award in 2001.

Apart from enhancements to the visitor experience, the National

Railway Museum has developed its academic credentials and learning facilities.

A major step forward in this expansion was made in 1994, with the launch of the Institute of Railway Studies as a joint venture between the Museum and the University of York. The role of the Institute is to develop the academic and scholarly basis of the Museum through a series of initiatives, including courses, publications and directly undertaken research. In June 2004 the Yorkshire Rail Academy was opened - a joint development between York College and the NRM. It is a purpose-built rail training centre and the base for the National Railway Museum’s education team.

Also in 2004 a new museum, Locomotion: the NRM at Shildon, County Durham, opened its doors to the public - the first national museum to be built in the North East.

This joint venture with the local authority enables more of the National Railway Museum’s collection to be housed properly and enjoyed by the public, and is helping to develop tourism in Shildon, the birthplace of the modern railway. Grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the European Regional Development Fund helped to create this NRM outpost.

When the National Railway Museum decided to build another museum, Shildon was an obvious choice. The first steam-hauled passenger train on a public railway departed from the town on September 27 1825, on the Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR).

The S&DR also opened its locomotive works (known as Soho Works) in the town. In 1863 production moved to nearby Darlington, but Shildon went on to become Britain’s largest wagon works. The works closed in 1984, but 20 years later Locomotion opened, bringing together a number of historical sites and a brand new purpose-built museum. Locomotion houses more than 70 vehicles, and is home to more than 40 special events a year.

Shildon was also home to Timothy Hackworth, the S&DR’s resident engineer. Hackworth moved to Shildon in 1825, and over the next 25 years designed and built several pioneering locomotives. These included Sans Pareil, which competed in the Rainhill Trails.

One of the latest additions to the National Railway Museum, York, is Search Engine, the £4 million archive and research centre.

Search Engine allows visitors to view previously unseen artwork, papers, reports, photographs and small artefacts. Thanks to almost £1m from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), and funds from the Higher Education Funding Council, the NRM is now able to offer academics and members of the public access to its vast archive collection - one of the largest and richest collections of railway-related material in the world.

The Museum’s Art Gallery opened in July 2011. Funded by The Foundation for Sport and the Arts, the purpose-built exhibition space hosts an exciting programme of temporary exhibitions showcasing the Museum’s unseen art collection alongside railway-inspired works of art from across the world. The National Railway Museum’s vast art collection comprises 11,222 posters, 2,358 prints and drawings, 1,052 paintings and 1,500,000 photographs, many of which have never been on public display.

The Museum’s collection ranges from the most powerful of steam locomotives, through to the most ornate carriages. It includes models, archive material, photographic images, film and works of fine art.

Compare the humble carriages used to transport passengers in the early 19th century with the sheer splendour of our Royal Trains. Marvel at the beauty of the world’s fastest steam locomotive, Mallard.

Today the NRM is one of Britain’s busiest museums, and perhaps the most popular railway museum in the world. It serves a diverse audience at its two sites and elsewhere, through its network of partnerships with museums and heritage railways across the UK. As part of its plan to retain its popularity, plans are being developed for new displays that will help a 21st century audience discover the huge impact the railway has had in shaping the modern world.

The National Railway Museum is part of the Science Museum Group, along with the Science Museum in London, the National Media Museum in Bradford, the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, and Locomotion in Shildon.

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Learning & Public Pro g Explainers and volunteers enrich the experience for museum visitors

very day, our Learning and Public Programmes team brings the museum alive. With events, shows, demonstrations, talks and tours, we extend the exhibition experience and bring the collections to life. Last year more than 335,000 visitors participated in learning events.

Every day, some of our dedicated team of 22 explainers provide live interpretation by giving talks and demonstrations - for example, facilitating access to locomotive cabs. In conversation with visitors, they ensure that everyone has a memorable experience as they share their personal stories and favourite objects.

They are able to bring technical subjects to life. For example, in talks around the Ellerman Lines sectioned locomotive, visitors can gain an understanding of how all the different parts of a steam locomotive work together. In this way, explainers support every visitor having a unique experience of the museum.

We are proud to receive a wide range of visitors, and we ensure we cater for them all. We run play sessions for under 6s, and offer storytelling activities such as Queen Victoria’s Royal train ride from London to York for the races. And for older children, we have our successful science shows.

We demonstrate the underlying principles of railway technology by taking an unexpected approach to communication. For instance, our science show ‘From Rocket to Bullet’ ends with a demonstration of steam pressure by shooting a Barbie® doll out of a steam cannon.

We always get a huge round of applause, but more importantly the audience remembers the power of steam.

These activities ensure our family visitors have fun, but they also

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Research shows that children switch off from science subjects as they grow older, leading to real difficulties in creating the skilled workforce of the future.

By creating exciting and engaging experiences for our school visitors, we can play our part in encouraging take-up of science, technology, engineering and maths in the teenage years.

We offer teachers an opportunity to get their children learning outside the classroom, doing things they could never do in a school. For example, they climb aboard a Victorian carriage as a second class passenger, and design bridges for themselves.

Our public programmes are done at a larger scale, involving thousands of visitors. During holidays, we produce large, exciting events that bring large audiences to discover the science and history of railways.

Wizard Week, featuring the locomotive Olton Hall made famous by the Harry Potter movies, saw 57,000 family visitors riding the train and enjoying our themed events. And last Christmas we created Santa’s Delivery Depot (where families searched for lost presents) and a Santa’s Christmas ride (in which children listened to themed storytelling).

We also have a dedicated audience of adults and enthusiasts. Our Public Programmes team produces events such as the LMS steam and Shildon shuttle weekends, using our collections and vehicles on loan.

We have exciting future plans. Next year we will run a major half-term public programme on railway safety, and will be creating a World War Two evacuation train experience as a major schools event. We will continue to host National Science and Engineering Week, delivering more than 300 workshops to over 1,500 students. We are also in our third year of delivering a joint schools project on climate change, working with one of our sister museums.

Looking further ahead, we want to celebrate the huge success of the 1980s Railriders Club with a summer programme that captures the nostalgia and memories of our visitors, leading onto developing our own children’s Friends of the National Railway Museum club.

Volunteering at the museum Our team of 315 volunteers plays an important part in the dayto-day activities of the museum. This year is Year of the Volunteer at the National Railway Museum, and we are celebrating the significant value of our volunteers (both financially and culturally) to our work.

A special event at the museum celebrated the Deltic volunteers’ recent Heritage Railways Association award for their restoration of 55002 King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Our volunteers also help create events and programmes.

Our original 1912 Lancashire & Yorkshire signalling layout in the Warehouse is demonstrated regularly, with volunteers using the authentic period signalling instruments to show how trains are able to negotiate their way around the rail network in a safe, efficient and reliable way Our research, cataloguing and databasing work depends on volunteers working with the Knowledge and Collections team. This includes cataloguing archives, restoring the uniform collection and sorting our signal collection.

And our volunteers support our customer service, for example by staffing the information desk in the Great Hall.

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PROVIDING ASSET MANAGEMENT, PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND FINANCE SOLUTIONS TO THE RAILWAY INDUSTRY.

Taking railways further...

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Eversholt Rail Track asset management you can rely on…

versholt Rail is one of the three rolling stock companies established on privatisation in 1996, and it continues to be at the forefront of development and investment within UK Rail.

The business delivers through-life asset management, finance and rolling stock leasing services to the UK rail industry. It is one of the largest private investors in UK rolling stock, with a book value of over £2 billion. Eversholt Rail's varied portfolio of assets includes electric multiple units, diesel multiple units, inter-city locomotive-hauled train sets, freight locomotives and freight wagons. At Railfest 2012, some of the most high-profile exhibits - such as the Class 380, the Class 395 and East Coast’s 91110 - are owned by Eversholt Rail.

Following the publication of Sir Roy McNulty’s Value for Money report in May 2011, Eversholt Rail remains fully committed to helping the rail industry to find the best value for money solutions, and move forward in line with both McNulty’s findings and those from the Command Paper issued by the Government in March.

Recommendations include improving passenger satisfaction and providing better value for money regarding rolling stock. This can be achieved in a number of ways, including a stronger alignment and partnership around products and servicing with both customers and suppliers over longer franchise periods.

Eversholt Rail delivers investment in value-for-money solutions from reliable and attractive rolling stock. This arises from both upgrading existing assets and acquiring new vehicles.

In the past five years, Eversholt Rail has invested £400 million on new rolling stock, taking delivery of 29 six-car 140mph Class 395s for use on the High Speed commuter lines from London St Pancras International, and 38 three-car and four-car Class 380s introduced on the Inverclyde and Ayrshire lines. The latter represented a £187 million investment to

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ScotRail 380009, owned by Eversholt Rail, approaches Paisley Gilmour Street on April 18 2012, with the 1505 Glasgow CentralGourock. JONATHAN MCGURK/RAIL.

boost capacity north of the border, rather than simply replace existing vehicles, and a significant procurement and project management effort to introduce the first ‘fly-by-wire’ Class 380 new generation EMU. The future franchising programme, with a less hands-on involvement by the Department for Transport, should create opportunities for Eversholt Rail to proactively work with both customers and supply chains to offer market-led solutions to the rail industry, to demonstrate both value for money and optimised passenger satisfaction.

Recent examples of this type of activity include spending £3m to make the Class 320 fleet comply with latest standards for accessibility, as required by the PRM TSI (Persons with Reduced Mobility, Technical Specification for Interoperability). This includes the installation of a fully accessible toilet allowing Class 320s to continue operation beyond 2020.

Eversholt Rail has also committed £3.5m to the interior refurbishment of a demonstrator Class 321, showing that a ‘new train’ ambience can be created on a mid-life train. This train will operate in service to gauge public feedback, allowing Eversholt Rail and the Operator to better understand what the users want and establish how a value-for-money refurbishment programme can be achieved.

Eversholt Rail is investing in a major reliability programme for the Class 91s that operate on the East Coast Main Line. This work includes enhanced overhauls and the trial of a duplex pantograph. Work is also being carried out on the Mk 4 carriages used on the line, as the company seeks to reduce the number of failures caused by the mid-life fleet.

There has also been investment in ‘new’ Hitachi traction systems on the Class 465/0 and 465/1 fleets owned by Eversholt Rail and used by Southeastern. This work was carried out by Hitachi at Ashford, and has transformed the performance levels of the Networker trains, which date from around the early 1990s. Eversholt Rail looks forward to the opportunity the forthcoming round of refranchising provides for it to optimise the benefits its fleet can provide.

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Bringing Station Hall t o A very different visitor experience will focus on the human stories ur Grade 2-listed Station Hall was originally York Sundries Goods Depot - its platforms crowded with palettes and single items being prepared for onward transport. Later the hall was used as a railway store, before hosting the Great Railway Show as part of the museum in 1990.

Today, to most of our visitors, Station Hall feels like an authentic passenger station. Its painted steelwork, high brick walls and multipitched roof are as much a part of the atmosphere as the carriages lined against its platforms.

By 2010 it was very clear that this sense of atmosphere was important to our visitors. But having enjoyed little investment over the past 10 years the hall was starting to feel disjointed, tired and lifeless.

We committed to turning this experience around as part of a sitewide strategy to make each of our spaces unique and engaging. In particular we wanted to revive our Royal Trains experience (our most popular exhibit), and provide the means for visitors to look inside without having to climb steps. We also wanted to give the Royal carriages pride of place at the very beginning of the visitor experience, rather than keeping them tucked away at the back of the hall.

We found that as people naturally loved looking through the carriage windows, and imagining how the occupants travelled, they wanted this experience to extend to the platforms. So in early 2011, we started a project to enhance and capitalise on the whole Station Hall, to make it the place where people can really feel part of their railway history.

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Below: Interior of York Goods Depot, 1961.

Above: Euston station, 1944.

The ďŹ rst major steps were to improve visitor circulation, move all the vehicles into their new locations and open up the vistas so that visitors could appreciate the grandeur of the hall.

After a major logistics exercise requiring the co-ordination of vehicle movements and building contractors, these steps are now complete ready for the launch of an experience that will bring life and spectacle to the hall.

A new entrance from the foyer will take visitors directly onto a station concourse. Steam effects, theatrical lighting and sounds of a busy station will draw visitors onto the platforms, where they will explore the collection and share their memories.

The platforms will be packed with platform furniture, loaded barrows and vending machines. We have been inspired by photographs from the collection that capture stations at different times of day with all its various activity, from the bustle of rush hour to the solitude of the platform at night.

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t o Life as the basis to the interpretation - visitors will also have the opportunity to share their own experiences with each other and with us.

There will be no dry text panels or formal displays in cases. Instead, interpretation will be artistically designed and discovered in unlikely places - sewn into a tablecloth, printed on tickets or hidden in luggage. Among the historic contexts, these stories might be anecdotal and whimsical. People might reveal the trade secrets of working on the station, or remember the familiar quirks of a fellow commuter. We particularly love these personal stories - they work well in an exhibition that explores the human experience of travelling and working.

Above all, the exhibition will be romantic and playful. Storylines about meeting under the clock and missing the train will sit alongside tales of momentous journeys and details of how the station experience has changed.

Creating this sort of personal narrative has been something of a departure for the museum team, and we have worked with a team of theatre producers to help us think differently about museum experiences. In workshops we explored how passengers move around stations, how they interact with each other, and how stations can be the scene of both confusion and familiarity.

We have appointed the design team At Large to design and develop the exhibition. Despite years of museum design experience with some of the biggest museum organisations, they jumped at the opportunity to work on an exhibition as inspiring and creative as this.

Their early designs are tremendous, and Station Hall promises to be one of the most talked-about exhibitions of 2013.

Station Hall in brief Station Hall is an immersive and nostalgic space in which visitors explore 24 hours in the life of a large station and discover the lives of its workers and passengers.

This is a flagship exhibition for the National Railway Museum, revelling in what we do best - connecting generations through personal stories.

What we’ll do ❚ We will work with our audience to create a deeply engaging experience, entirely about the human experience of railways. ❚ We will use special effects, sound and light to create a station experience that most vividly appeals to our senses and our emotions. ❚ We will create a goods yard display that reflects the original use of the Station Hall. ❚ We will build a new entrance into the space, making the visitor experience easier and more rewarding. ❚ We will develop new tours and learning activities that encourage visitors to explore and share.

Why it’s a great idea Most people enter the world of railways through stations, and we know our visitors love to hear and talk about personal stories. The popular Station Hall is the perfect place to explore evocative stories about the romance of travelling by train.

What’s next? ❚ Designs will be complete by July 2012. ❚ Installation will commence in November 2012. ❚ Work will be completed by March 2013.

How can I help? ❚ We are currently seeking further funding partners to join a privileged group of industry leaders already committed to this project. To discuss opportunities contact the National Railway Museum Development Team: development@nrm.org.uk Phone 01904 685726 Above: Liverpool Street station,1962.

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Siemens

hen it comes to train manufacturing, Siemens leads the way with innovation.

Nowhere will this be more apparent than on the new Desiro City trains that are set to transform the lives of commuters on the Thameslink route. Siemens is the preferred order for a £1 billion+ train order that will see more than 1,000 vehicles enter traffic as part of a multibillion-pound upgrade of this important route.

The company already has Desiro UK trains in use with Greater Anglia, London Midland, TransPennine Express and South West Trains, while the next generation of Desiro UK - the Class 380, which features ‘fly-by-wire’ technology that will also be used on the Desiro City trains - is also in use with ScotRail.

However, Siemens is looking to take the Desiro UK, which is currently the most reliable train in the UK, and improve it still further. A key factor of this improved performance will be the SF7000 bogie.

Benefits of the SF7000 include low track damage, low wheel damage (and therefore less maintenance required), and low energy consumption. Its characteristics include progressive primary suspension, low overall mass, low unsprung mass, low ‘T-Gamma’ and low mass of moment inertia within the wheelset.

And design features include an inboard bearing, short wheelbase, small wheels and a trailer bogie with axle mounted brake discs, while the motor bogie is equipped with a tread brake system in addition to the generatoric braking system.

The SF7000 will also have a sensoric system to identify conditions of the wheelset bearings within a bogie. This includes a sensor system whereby sensors will be mounted on pre-defined positions, checking the number of revolutions and temperature of the wheel set bearings.

Innovations in the new SF7000 bogie include an electronic leveling valve that minimises vertical gaps at platforms, reduces air consumption during operation and produces an output for weight management system to help the train’s passenger information system.

It will be fitted with Locked In Movement (LIM), which allows it a centering function carbody/bogie in lateral direction while reducing the wheel/rail forces at ride. The bogie will be able to absorb sound and reduce fatigue.

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30% compared with the SF5000 bogie) to allow the entire weight of the train to be less. This will be achieved through using materials with a high yield strength and tempered materials.

The SF7000 trailer bogie will be fitted with about 19 individual groups of components, while the SF7000 motor bogie will have about 20 groups of components. Four pre-series bogies have already been constructed by Siemens, and were unveiled in March ahead of its expected award of the Thameslink contract.

But the SF7000 does mark the end of Siemens development, and it is already looking for further innovations.

In future bogie developments, it will be able to transmit data to the maintenance depots or service centres through a Bogie Health monitoring check (BHC).

This check will: identify imperfections in both the bogie and the rail; predict fatigue; compare data; and allow long-trend analysis, better utilisation of fatigue life and improve the reliability of trains, because it will enable early scheduling of corrective maintenance. This will be achieved by using a minimal sensor configuration, small digitising unit for sensor signals, central evaluation processor unit, direct communication to train bus system, and data transmission to landside.

Siemens says that the advantage of this in terms of reliability is that corrective maintenance becomes predictable.

Other bogies with proven design are in service, such as the SF8 bogie, which is currently used under a Bo-Bo-Bo locomotive. Already 237 of these bogies are in service, while a total order for 297 was presented in March 2012 to a press delegation. These SF8 bogies are in use in Australia.

The high-speed bogie SF500 has been designed for the Velaro trains, to be used by Eurostar on its long-distance services to Holland and Germany. These bogies will be capable of 350kmh, and will be developed from a design that has already seen more than 3,000 of the bogie type in use throughout the world.

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Station Stories

Campaign will offer unique voices and new perspectives on station life tation Hall will be led by personal stories. Some will be harvested from our existing rich oral history collections, most will be contributions from visitors and friends in response to a series of online and gallery campaigns. These stories will provide us with unique voices and new perspectives on station life.

We’re collecting these stories in a number of different ways. We’ll be holding story-gathering sessions in the museum and other venues.

And vsitors in Station Hall will be able to see regularly refreshed popup exhibits - so far, we’ve installed a ticket board that visitors can use to tell us about their station experiences by filling in a luggage label.

We’re also using our website to promote our story-gathering project. There’s an online story form that people can fill in, and we’re using our blog to talk to people about the changes we’re making, and the stories we have so far.

We have spoken to a number of senior staff within the railway industry, and have discovered that many of you have extraordinary experience of the operational railway, having held positions throughout the chain of command during your careers.

We would love to hear from you. Partly because your knowledge and experience will help us to improve the accuracy of our research, partly because we want you to be a part of our project, but mostly because everyone who has worked on the railways has interesting stories to tell (usually the best of these emerge after you’ve said all the things you think you ought to).

We are looking for stories from people who have worked as station managers, porters, platform staff, caterers, lost property supervisors, railway police, on-board teams (particularly Royal train staff), messengers, ticket clerks, venders, cleaners… the list goes on and on. And if you’ve never worked at a station yourself, we would be delighted if you would pass on the message to your teams.

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What will we do with the stories?

The exhibition is currently being designed, and at this stage it is impossible to say exactly what the result will be. However, all stories will help to give the designers a flavour for station life.

Some in particular will really catch our imagination. These might be turned into a scene, or could give life to a character that visitors might encounter. We might use some stories in graphics, or integrate them into a display of objects or a small film. If appropriate we might need to get back to you for more information, but we would never give your details to anyone else.

Do you have a story to tell?

If you, or someone you know, has a story to tell we’d like to hear from you. ❚ Fill in our online story form at nrm.org.uk/stationstories ❚ Email your story to stationstories@nrm.org.uk ❚ Post to Station Stories, National Railway Museum, Leeman Road, York, YO26 4XJ If you have any questions please get in touch with Sally Sculthorpe, sally.sculthorpe@nrm.org.uk, 01904 685762 ❚ You can follow our progress at nrm.org.uk/stationhall

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Station cleaner, Hatch End station, 1937

Station paper boy, 1905

A guard modelling the new British Rail uniform in 1966.

What others have told us ❚ People expected a bowler hat on the platform to meet them and say: “Good morning. Thank you for travelling British Rail”. It’s people who make the railways tick. ❚ The fish van smelled dreadful and everything I touched was full of fish scales. My mother loved it, though, because every week I’d bring home the leftovers. ❚ Late one night I heard this voice in the post room saying: “Hello”.

It was dark, and I couldn’t see anyone. Then I discovered a talkative parrot sitting on the scales. ❚ So many people lost their glasses on the trains. We had spectacles by the tea chest-full in the lost property office. It was virtually impossible to return them to their owner.

❚ I was elated. All I wanted was to be an engine driver, and suddenly I’d got it. It’s a wonderful feeling that took a while to wear off. ❚ There was a pecking order where you’d pick off your passengers, you’d suss out: “I’ll get a tip from that one”. We always kept our own tips, rather than trunking them like we should have done. ❚ The old travelling post office coaches had coconut matting on the floor. One winter the snow was coming through the door. It froze the matting, so we stood in parcel bags to keep our legs warm. ❚ You got extra pay for working long hours in the goods depot. A mate of mine had four kids, and he used to say: “When I’m telling the kids a bedtime story I say ‘once upon a time and a half’.” ❚ When I was courting, Sunday afternoon shifts were a bit of a bind.

I was always keen to get out, but was told straight: “You need to buck your ideas up, time-keeping is important in the railway!”

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Network Rail t’s just over a year since David Higgins was appointed Network Rail chief executive, having previously led the Olympic Delivery Authority.

At that time, the industry was anticipating Sir Roy McNulty’s Value for Money report. Major spending reductions were expected.

Put simply, rail capacity is (over)used to such an extent that there is little flexibility and virtually no resilience to disruption - at hotspots, the slightest problem rapidly causes hours of operational trauma.

Great strides have been made with the cultural changes needed to drive the more substantive changes.

“I’m starting to understand what the themes are,” says Higgins. “The most obvious is that every year rail demand goes up by 5%.

Gatwick Airport’s demand went up last year by 0.8%, and even that’s a challenge. But rail goes up by 5% every year, year on year, yet at the same time we have to take our costs down by 5% every year.

“We’re coping with huge growth, but we’re hitting a capacity crunch. There are ways to deal with this. One is to build new railway, and that’s what Crossrail and Thameslink are all about.

“We also have High Speed 2 coming. But even so, I reckon when we open the bottom section of High Speed 2, you won’t have any reduction in traffic on the old line because freight will gulp up any spare capacity, and it will also be used for commuters.”

Higgins explains: “We have to look at capacity, and the resilience in the timetable. In Scotland we’ve worked out that we can get at least another per cent or more by just cleaning up the timetable. And that’s not by making journeys longer, that’s just by making things work better.”

There are solutions: “Eventually, when we get proper signalling systems, yes we will have more capacity. When we get electrification on Western, we estimate we’ll probably save 15 minutes or more on the trip to Cardiff, maybe 20. That’s good.

“We need fewer, longer trains, and then people can make decisions as to where they should stop. But we also simply have to accept that you can’t have everything - you cannot have higher performance, lower cost and higher capacity, because they’re contradictory.”

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devolution and the introduction of Deep Alliances. Responsibility is devolved and shared, and partnership working will flourish.

“To me it’s obvious that ops and maintenance should be together,” he says. “But what’s more important (but less understood) in devolution is asset planning decisions. They need to be taken in partnership with our customers, because they know a hell of a lot about the resilience of the network.

“We need to plan the work with them, and then have the flexibility locally to do trade-offs between ops, maintenance and renewals. It means there’s more authority and skills put in the routes, which are big businesses. The aim is that the centre becomes more of a service facility, rather than a command and control centre.

“What’s clear now is that the next stage on devolution is to address capacity within each of the routes. And one thing is obvious: each route is different. Each route has its own challenges related not only to whoever the customer is, but with regard to the physical network itself. We have to be flexible enough to deal with that.

“The next thing that becomes clear is that as capacity use occurs of the intensity that we are seeing, then network resilience becomes really, really crucial.

Higgins is clear that flexibility has to be the key to how the network is managed, with professional judgement absolutely essential.

“We have some of the best railway engineers in the world keeping this amazing, historic network together. We need to rely more on them. We need to train them to be more skilled and we need to challenge the processes. That’s not going to be easy.”

And when it comes to cutting costs?

“On our forecasts, for the ten years from Control Period 4 to Control Period 5, we reduce public subsidy from £5.9 billion to £1.9bn a year.”

He sets out what this means for NR: “Network Rail’s share of that in those two control periods is that we take out - in real terms - £2bn in costs.” NR’s maintenance costs in CP4 alone (200914) are due to fall by around 50%, from £1.5bn to £750m.

And how has the job gone so far?

“The most important thing that I’m always proud about is safety. It was my priority at my last job - and it’s my priority here.

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Mallard 75 n July 3 1938, the A4 Class Pacific steam locomotive No. 4468 Mallard - only recently built at the Doncaster works of the London & North Eastern Railway, and the first of its Class to be fitted with a double chimney - achieved a world record for steam traction of 126mph. In the process, it wrested the existing record of 124.5mph from the Deutsch Reichsbahn.

Sir Nigel Gresley’s engineering masterpiece achieved this phenomenal speed down Stoke Bank, south of Grantham, and the

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Reuniting world steam record holder with its sister locomotives

approximate point at which it was briefly attained is marked to this day by a line-side commemorative sign featuring a steel silhouette of the locomotive.

Reflecting the spirit of an age whose very existence was being threatened by the looming clouds of war, Mallard secured for all time the steam traction speed laurels for the United Kingdom.

Moreover, the A4 Class steam locomotive set an aesthetically stunning railway design benchmark that lasts to this day. And the close resemblance in appearance of the modern Class 91 electric locomotive and the Hitachi ‘Javelin’ train is a fine example of the enduring nature of Mallard’s iconic visual outline. The inspiration drawn by the Doncaster drawing office from Bugatti’s car designs is clear for all to see. In simple terms, Mallard and her sisters represent style, elegance, speed, efficiency and (above all) British railway engineering at its very best.

2013 marks the 75th anniversary of Mallard’s 126mph world record achievement. This locomotive has pride of place in the National Railway Museum’s National Collection, representing the culmination of British high-speed steam locomotive development and achievement. It is also aesthetically beautiful, is emblematic of the spirit of the 1930s streamlined era, and is on our visitors’ must-see list of things to do.

As the record holder, Mallard is the most prominent of the A4 Class locomotives, but five others also survive following their withdrawal from regular service in the 1960s. In the UK we have in private ownership 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley, 60009 Union of

South Africa, and 4464 Bittern. In addition, two locomotives were gifted abroad by British Railways in the 1960s: 60008 Dwight D Eisenhower, which is on display at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States; and 60010 Dominion of Canada, which is at Exporail, the Canadian National Railway Museum in Montreal.

For the 50th anniversary in 1988, Mallard was returned to working order and operated a number of special trains. However, given that the three other UK-based locomotives will be operational in 2013, it was judged that there would be no requirement to repair Mallard again to compete in what would be a crowded rail tour market.

Therefore, in the absence of a plan to restore Mallard to operational condition, the National Railway Museum turned its mind to how to devise a celebratory programme that would have broad appeal and be utterly unique.

We are therefore in the advanced stages of devising a plan to assemble all six surviving A4s at York, as the centre piece of a series of commemorative events.

Clearly this will be an immensely popular and dramatic occasion.

Its never-to-be-repeated character will surely have national and international pull, and the crowd-drawing capacity of all six locomotives positioned around the NRM’s Great Hall turntable would be immense.

Getting two A4s across the Atlantic requires significant reserves of diplomacy and persuasion, and relies on an international audience that wishes to be associated with the value of such an ambitious plan.

We are therefore delighted that the US and Canadian-based owners share our vision and understand the significance of such a project to their own respective operations, and have agreed the temporary loan (two years) of their locomotives.

An additional group of other prominent organisations, including shipping, have come together to help make this work. Furthermore, the UK-based private A4 locomotive owners have all individually formally confirmed their willingness to take part, so the stage is now set

for something very special.

Mallard’s achievement is not just a chapter in a glorious but distant railway past. It represents a unifying source of pride for today’s modern railway industry, and the railway heritage and preservation movement. We look forward to helping re-awaken the British public’s pride in a modern railway whose contemporary ‘golden age’ is every bit as exciting and important as that which provided the setting for Mallard’s immortal exploits.

Steve Davies MBE Director

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A new iPhone App Summer 2012 offers passengers a glimpse of the past… and much more programme called Commercial Cultures, funded by the Arts and his summer we will launch Time Line, the first ever lineside guide Humanities Research Council. This project explored the ways in which iPhone app, in association with the University of York and East places and journeys were marketed to potential passengers from Coast Railways. It is an exciting example of how we can work the 1870s to 1970s. From using idealised with our industry partners to bring bendescriptions of places to selling the idea efits to audiences and customers throughof luxurious journeys as part of a desirable out the country. lifestyle, railway companies were experts in Time Line is a multi-featured app packed making people feel that they had a desire with content. Passengers with East Coast to travel, a right to travel, and even a duty can choose to travel as a passenger in the to travel.

1870s, the 1930s, the 1970s or the present day, The stories that we tell at the National tracing their journey through period posters Railway Museum are all about movement and marketing material that pops up at key and mobility. Railways enable people to locations to interpret the route of the train. get around, and increasingly we are trying Other features include an Interactive to reflect this by taking our exhibits outside Poster Maker that visitors can use to create the four walls of the museum. Time Line is their own images and post to their social a great, adaptable product that explores media sites; 3D tours of carriages from the travel ideas on the move, when they are National Collection; and selected informa- An early concept for the Time Line website, most relevant to the audience. It provides tion about the current service. It provides showing some of the features packed into the superb added value for East Coast’s enough material to fill several journeys, it App. customers. is updateable, and we are able to make it Our collections reflect every part of the completely free to users. country, and we can richly interpret all aspects of the UK network. We The whole thing is based on some of the most up-to-date research are delighted by this partnership, and look forward to building on its on railway company history. From success in the future.

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Left: A poster produced for British Rail (Inter-City), showing a commuter in a carriage on his way to work, reading a newspaper, and (below) on his homeward journey, with an alcoholic drink. Executive travel was an important market for Inter-City services, and we see the image of the urbane, modern businessman again and again in BR posters and publicity.

Right: This 1895 poster, featuring a romantic view of Loch Lomond by night, was produced for the Great Northern Railway (GNR), North Eastern Railway (NER) and North British Railway (NBR), promoting the shortest direct routes between London and Scotland. It was designed to tempt passengers to travel to Scotland on the East Coast route, and emphasises the speed of the route as well as the comfort provided by lavatory carriages and ‘heating by steam’ in winter.

Above: Great Western Railway (GWR) was a pioneer in the use of photographic publicity to sell its route and services. Models posed for this GWR photograph, which was taken to advertise the route between London and Penzance. Landscape was essential in GWR’s advertising appeal, and romantic images of the Cornish landscape appear frequently. But all is not as it seems in this photograph - an image of St Michael’s Mount has been placed over the window, to disguise the fact that this photograph was actually taken in railway sidings!

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Art Gallery- Introduction ver the spring of 2011 we transformed a former engine shed into a state-of-the-art, climatecontrolled exhibition space. The project was funded by the Foundation for Sport and the Arts, and cost £650,000. For the first time, the NRM now has a space suitable for the display of the most delicate art works and museum material.

It also provides a blank canvas that can be reinvented for each exhibition, complementing the historic and evocative railway buildings that make up the rest of the site.

The building work was just the beginning for an exciting programme of temporary exhibitions that explores the cultural impact of the railways, from their beginnings to the present day. The main goal for the space is to showcase our art collection - the National Railway Museum’s vast collection comprises 11,222 posters, 2,358 prints and drawings, 1,052

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Left: Conservation staff give some of our unseen art collection a final touch-up ahead of the Art Gallery Soft Opening paintings and 1,500,000 photographs, many of which have never been on public display.

Throughout their history railways have inspired artists, and railway companies have commissioned cutting-edge design to promote their work.

The result is a vast archive of material that reflects both how railway companies wanted to be seen and society’s emotional connection to the train.

Uniquely, we also have the opportunity to show our smaller-scale collection items in conversation with locomotives, rolling stock or road vehicles. The architects created a bespoke demountable wall designed to accommodate the standard loading gauge of a locomotive, and this flexibility was used to great effect in The Art of Advertising, when we reconstructed a 1920s advertising hoarding for a horse-drawn dray.

The gallery also allows us to show not only our own collections, but also railway-inspired artwork from around the world.

One long-held aspiration we achieved in the first year was the exhibition of 19th century woodblock prints of the first railway line in Japan, from the collection of our sister museum the Modern Transport Museum in Osaka. Without the art gallery space this would never have been possible, as we couldn’t previously provide the conditions necessary to display these delicate artworks.

Already the Tate and the Victoria and Albert Museum have supported our programme with loans of artworks, and many more exciting collaborations, with similarly high-profile institutions, are planned for future years. Â Left: Our new art gallery space has transformed a former engine shed into a state-of-the-art climate-controlled exhibition space.

The Art of Advertising - making new connections This major exhibition revealed some of the true gems of our collection – the original artworks for posters designed by Royal Academy artists were shown alongside the poster versions.

The artists employed for this special commission (designed to raise the profile of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway company) were the biggest names of their day. The Tate and a number of Yorkshire collections lent to the exhibition, allowing us to explore the work of these famous artists before they worked for the LMS. The Art of Advertising was part of a Yorkshire-wide collaboration Art in Yorkshire, supported by Tate. Galleries across the county joined forces to promote a yearlong season of exhibitions and events. Leaflets were produced and distributed through tourism venues and the Guardian magazine, and a website and app were created.

Working together with other arts organisations helps us to bring new audiences to the museum.

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Hints for Holidays - experienc e May 26 to September 2 2012 Our summer exhibition for 2012 explores the history and enduring appeal of the British seaside holiday through the eyes of the railway poster week at the seaside might seem like a cliché today, but it only became a national institution just over 100 years ago. In the early 20th century a transformation took place. Holidays, traditionally for the wealthy, were suddenly available to the masses. And the railways were at the centre of these changes, opening up affordable and easy travel to ordinary people.

The development of the holiday came from social changes, too, as employers began to appreciate the value of giving people a break from work. Bank holidays were introduced in 1871, and from 1900 more and more people were able to take paid leave from work. The

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Tom Purvis was one of the pioneers of commercial design, and produced many classic designs for the LNER. This poster was withdrawn by the LNER after the RSPCA complained that this image of a child pulling a donkey’s tail would encourage similar cruel behavior.

MABLETHORPE AND SUTTON-ON-SEA, THE CHILDREN’S PARADISE, BY TOM PURVIS, FOR LONDON & NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY (LNER), IN 1927. 1990-7267

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railway companies capitalised on this by laying on special excursion trains, and by heavily promoting seaside resorts as the best places for people to spend their new-found leisure time.

Over the years the appeal of the seaside changed with the fashions of the day. Railway posters responded to this, reflecting people’s ideas of what made a great day out. Historically trips to the seaside were a development of the popularity of inland spa towns, and the wealthy flocked to the coast, where the fresh air and sea water were thought to be good for you, curing all sorts of ailments.

By the 1920s more people than ever could afford a holiday, and millions of pounds were spent transforming quiet fishing villages into modern and extravagant resorts. Going away was still associated with wealth and luxury, so as a result kept its glamorous appeal.

Promenades, pleasure beaches and winter gardens offered new forms of entertainment and the chance to see and be seen. Activities such as swimming became fashionable and new bathing pools were built. The railway companies secured even more profit from this by building modern and stylish hotels.

From the 1930s to the 1960s the seaside holiday boomed. Â

nc e the British seaside holiday The Jolly Fisherman restoring an icon The exhibition features an early 1908 version of this iconic poster, featuring the Great Northern Railway Company’s most famous character.

The giant poster is more than two metres tall and one of the earliest examples of the railway company using designer John Hassall’s Jolly Fisherman. Since then the Jolly Fisherman has continued to appear in posters and cartoons, and is still used to promote Skegness today.

In contrast to the more factual approach often taken at the time, this is one of the first examples of a humorous character being used, to promote the relaxed and fun atmosphere of the seaside. The poster brings together the new idea of holidaying for fun with the traditional notion of visiting the coast for its healthy ‘bracing’ air.

At over 100 years old the poster is understandably fragile.

Before coming to us in 1992 the poster had been stored folded, and holes had developed along the crease lines, while the acidic paper had discoloured.

Before the exhibition the poster has been washed and repaired.

A new paper lining will provide support, and ensure this classic seaside character stays looking as good as new.

SKEGNESS IS SO BRACING, BY JOHN HASSALL, FOR GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY IN 1908. 1975-8397

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Activities such as making sandcastle and donkey rides, which had been popular since the 1800s, became a key way of selling the traditional seaside experience. Cheaper forms of accommodation developed, such as holiday camps and railway camping coaches so that everyone could join in the fun. And suntans became fashionable (from the 1920s onwards bronzed skin became associated with exotic holidays aboard, rather than hard toil in the fields).

With so much competition it was important that resorts looked upto-date. As a result, railway companies used cutting-edge design in their poster advertising. Leading commercial artists such as Abram Games, John Hassall, Tom Purvis, Austin Cooper and Frank Newbould all produced seaside scenes for the railways.

This exhibition represents a key development as we experiment with our new art gallery space, and takes a very family-friendly approach.

Historic film footage (to a jazz soundtrack) of people enjoying the pleasures of the seaside, and a ‘design your own poster’ interactive game bring a lively atmosphere to the exhibition space. Bright colours and bold design help to create a relaxed and lively atmosphere that does more than just tell you about the seaside - it re-creates the fun and excitement of being there!

Right: Our title ‘Hints for Holidays’ is taken from the guidebooks produced by the Southern Railway. Each of the ‘big four’ railway companies encouraged travellers by publishing guidebooks filled with photographs and descriptions of resorts, accommodation, and attractions on their routes.

HINTS FOR HOLIDAYS, BY MURIEL HARRIS, FOR SOUTHERN RAILWAY, IN 1939. 1978-9775

Left: WESTON-SUPER-MARE, THE SMILE IN SMILING SOMERSET, BY MERVILLE, FOR BRITISH RAILWAYS (WESTERN REGION) IN 1955. 1979-7685 Below: BLACKPOOL, FOR GORGEOUS SIGHTS, BY WILTON WILLIAMS, FOR GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY, C 1920. 1986-8786

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Whatever the weather: selling rail travel in winter October 27 2012 to January 20 2013 Our autumn show reveals how railway companies encourage people to travel ‘whatever the weather’, and how they deal with Britain’s meteorological extremes s the nights get shorter and the temperature starts to drop, most people’s thoughts turn towards spending more time at home, curling up under a blanket in front of the TV. For the railways the end of the good weather, day trippers and summer holiday traffic, and the change of seasons, presents an annual challenge. Rising to that challenge over the years, they have given passengers a variety of reasons to leave the house on a frosty morning or a dark, rainy evening.

This exhibition will take our visitors on a journey through the seasons and the weather conditions we associate with them. The iconography and language of weather forecasts will help to create a playful approach to the subject, as well as grounding the historic poster in familiar common experiences as we all follow the predictable cycle of changing seasons.

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Right: Making the most of an Indian summer or those last few days of warmth was one commonly used reason. Posters rich in the reds and golds of autumnal landscapes encouraged passengers to get out in the countryside before it was too late.

The beauty and spectacle of the turning leaves provided a further motivation to escape to the great outdoors and explore local woods or parks.

MAKE THE MOST OF THE AUTUMN DAYS, BY F H COVENTRY, FOR SOUTHERN RAILWAY, IN 1939. 1978-9806

Left: A typical grey, miserable day in a British winter is perhaps the least inspiring of all the potential meteorological events. This poster was part of a ‘winter pastimes’ series (produced by the Southern Railway) that encouraged people to join clubs to while away the winter evenings, rather than staying at home alone. Museums, stately homes and art galleries were other railway company suggestions for places to go on a rainy day.

TO YOUR WHIST DRIVES, CARD PARTIES, SOCIAL CLUBS, BY HELEN RAY MARSHALL, FOR SOUTHERN RAILWAY, IN 193. 1978-9838

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SOUTH FOR WINTER SUNSHINE, BY EDMOND VAUGHAN, FOR SOUTHERN RAILWAY, IN 1929. 1986-8773 Right: The Southern Railway also offered through travel to the continent via Calais or Boulogne, giving passengers access to winter sports resorts. This was presented as another way to get away from the dull and dreary British winter, in favour of the glamorous ski slopes of Europe. As they did with summer holidays, the railways promoted ideals of relaxation and escapism - whatever your ideal holiday, it started with a train ride.

WINTER SPORTS EXPRESSES, BY AUDREY WEBER, FOR SOUTHERN RAILWAY, IN 1934. 1987-9164 Below: Finally the depths of winter have their own particular beauty.

The sight of a glittering landscape on a frosty morning is nothing short of magical, and crisp, virgin snow still excites a sense of childish delight in almost all of us. Travelling in winter has the potential to reward us with rare visual delights.

SCOTLAND BY LMS - THE HIGHLANDS IN WINTER, BY GEORGE NICHOLLS, FOR LONDON MIDLAND AND SCOTTISH RAILWAY, C1930S. 1988-7935

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And still the railwaymen carried on - the industry perspective Above: Of course, once the railways had secured the passenger numbers there remained the added challenge of keeping the trains running, often in adverse conditions. From the minute the leaves start falling, autumn and winter present an endless series of problems. From making tiny tweaks to timetables, through to gigantic snowploughs crashing through drifts, the industry fights a quiet battle to make sure passengers barely notice a difference between summer and winter railways. The theme of weather will allow us to shed light on some of these hidden stories.

AND STILL THE RAILWAYMEN CARRIED ON! UNKNOWN ARTIST C.1940. 1978-9885 Right: Public information posters help to manage expectations for those rare occasions when trains are inevitably delayed.

NOT THAT OLD ‘LEAVES ON THE LINE’ EXCUSE AGAIN? UNKNOWN ARTIST, FOR RAILTRACK IN 1999.1999-7252

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THE national railway c o From big locomotives to tiny curios there’s something to interest everyone he National Railway Museum is the national railway collection, the UK’s largest and most important collection of historic railway vehicles and artefacts. With objects ranging from tiny uniform buttons to the 106-tonne Chinese KF7 locomotive, the collection represents an unrivalled record of the historical and technological development of the railway, and its impact on all our lives.

For many people, the NRM’s most spectacular objects are vehicles.

There are nearly 300 locomotives, carriages and wagons in our collection, including icons such as Mallard, Flying Scotsman, Duchess of Hamilton and Queen Victoria’s royal saloon.

Mallard, designed by Sir Nigel Gresley and built by the London & North Eastern Railway in Doncaster in 1938, is an A4 class engine, and holder of the world speed record for steam locomotives. On July 3 1938, on a test run on the East Coast Main Line south of Grantham, Mallard reached 126mph (203kph), a record that has never been beaten.

Many people regard Flying Scotsman as the most famous locomotive in the world. Taking its name from the 10am express passenger service between London and Edinburgh, Flying Scotsman was completed in 1923, appearing at the British Empire Exhibition in Wembley the following year. From then on it was the London & North Eastern Railway’s ‘flagship’ locomotive, and its fame only increased when it was officially recognised as the first steam engine to hit 100mph.

On withdrawal in 1963 Flying Scotsman became the first preserved engine to return to Britain’s main lines, and tours of the United States and Australia followed. In 2004 it was bought for the national collection, and is now nearing the end of a major overhaul that will return it to main line operation.

Duchess of Hamilton is another 1930s classic - the most powerful passenger steam locomotive built for Britain’s railways. The streamlined casing made the engine a striking symbol of 1930s design, but Â

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Right: The Model Railway, a Great Western Railway jigsaw made in about 1930 by the Chad Valley Co Ltd of Birmingham.

Inset right: Railway company pencils.

Below: No 6229 Duchess of Hamilton on its return to the National Railway Museum in May 2009, following the construction of its replica streamlined casing.

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Above: The construction of the roof of St Pancras station, photographed by J B Pyne in 1868.

Below: The cover of the 1947 edition of Holiday Haunts, the Great Western Railway’s holiday brochure.

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tenance took priority over looks. However, 2009 saw the completion of a project to replicate the original streamlining, and Duchess of Hamilton returned to its art deco opulence.

Of course, railways aren’t just about locomotives, but also the passengers and goods that they carried. The best-known carriage in the collection is probably Queen Victoria’s royal saloon, built by the London & North Western Railway in 1869 at a cost of £1,800. With its silk coverings, gilded fittings and carved chairs, the royal carriage was far removed from most passengers’ experience of rail travel.

But our collection also includes the ‘every day’ vehicles. There are workhorses such as the Black Five and Q1 locomotives, which hauled millions of metric-tons of freight in their careers, together with the suburban electric trains that served London’s commuter belt. There’s even the prototype of the coal hopper wagons that still supply Britain’s power stations in a succession of non-stop ‘merry-go-round’ trains.

Our collection is not just about the big stuff. We have more than 27,000 objects associated with railway life and work, ranging from guards’ whistles to toys and games. There are tools and equipment; china and glass from hotels, restaurants and dining cars; uniforms; clocks and watches; and models.

Among the more unusual items are a pair of scissors used by Dr Beeching to open a station, and the clock from Quintinshill signalbox, scene of Britain’s worst ever railway disaster in 1915. There’s also a massive model railway built in 1912 to instruct railway signallers - 100 years later, it’s still used for this purpose today.

We also have a vast library, archive and image collection, accessible through Search Engine, our research centre. It contains 3km of shelving that houses personal and business archives; 750,000 engineering drawings; sound archives containing more than 500 interviews with railway workers and users; 22,000 books; and 1.75 million photographs.

And we hold an impressive art collection, with over 1,000 paintings, more than 11,000 posters, and 2,350 prints and drawings. The railway’s impact on aesthetic and cultural life is reflected in our new Art Gallery, which opened in 2011 and which has already proved extremely popular with visitors. Our art exhibitions regularly showcase the collection, featuring fine art inspired by the railway, the work of printmakers and cartoonists, and the colourful posters that advertised the railway and the resorts it served.

The NRM collection is still growing, as we acquire new objects to reflect the contemporary railway, and others that allow us to better interpret stories from the past.

To manage our collection we have a team of curators, conservators and engineers. Their role is to understand and interpret the objects, and enable our users to unlock stories for themselves, in our exhibitions, our archive and through our online resources. The conservation team preserves the collection, while our engineers restore the vehicles and large objects, some of them to working order.

The NRM collection is massive, but our aim is to make it all accessible, so that our users can experience for themselves the railway’s impact on our world.

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Above: A wicker lunch basket made for rail travellers by Drew & Sons in about 1890. The hamper contained a stove, kettle, tea pot, tea caddy and a sugar bowl.

Above: A London & North Eastern Railway footwarmer, supplied to keep passengers’ feet warm in draughty carriages.

Above: Wallis’ Locomotive Game of Railroad Adventures, a board game made in about 1840.

Left: The day saloon in the carriage built by the London & North Western Railway for Queen Victoria in 1869.

Right: Mallard leaving York on a steam special service for Harrogate on April 25 1987.

Far left: A letter from 14-yearold John Backhouse to his sister in London, describing the opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway on September 27 1825. At the top is his pencil sketch of the train, believed to be the first ever illustration of a railway by a child.

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Modern Gallery Giving visitors the chance to learn about today’s (and tomorrow’s) railway he National Railway Museum has always displayed the history of the railways, and excited millions of people with stories of our railway heritage. However, our Vision emphasises communication of the present and future of railways – something that our current gallery spaces do not achieve. The Eurostar display, installed in 1991, is the most modern permanent exhibit.

It is both important and urgent for us to address this gap. So we plan to create a ‘Modern Gallery’ on our Search Engine balcony in the next two years - this will allow our visitors to engage with the modern-day railway, learn more about its operation and challenges, and interact with the issues facing the industry today.

The archives located in Search Engine are a successful, accessible resource for studying the history of railways, and we are the custodian of the modern industry’s archive.

However, an important cultural function of these archives - contextualising the present and future - is under used. Evidence from visitors suggests that they would like to explore modern railway subjects in more detail, and be able to contextualise the stories they hear in the news.

We intend to use this space as a platform for showcasing current and future thinking within the rail industry. We will endeavour to bring the public to a closer understanding of railway operations, bridging the gap between the past and the future. We will do this by drawing on relevant items from our 200-year-old collection, and bringing together industry expertise.

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The areas of the exhibition will specifically cover: 1. An introduction to the modern railway The modern railway touches all our lives, but the set-up of the modern railway is confusing to the public. The relationship between the train and freight operating companies, Network Rail, the regulatory bodies and Government is complex. The permanent core of the gallery will give an overview of the modern railway and its operation, including some recent history to give the correct context. To ensure that the core of the gallery is current and topical, there will be an updateable element, so that we can react to major developments in the industryand changes in transport policy.

2. Exploration of hot topics Some railway stories appear in the news on a regular basis, so can be seen as ‘hot topics’. They need to be brought alive in a simple, understandable format, and viewed from multiple perspectives.

We will select one of these areas each year, and produce a rolling programme of exhibitions and digital media around it. The changing ‘hot topics’ area will explore a subject and add context from the museum’s archive and small object collection.

Potential subjects to act as hot topics are: ❚ High Speed 2 – the why about the Y route from London to Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. ❚ Crossrail – tunnelling under central London. ❚ Greener railways – lighter rolling stock, reduced emissions, hybrid trains. ❚ The European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) - creating a single Europe-wide standard for train control. ❚ The future of commuting – tackling capacity and comfort. ❚ International railways – what’s new in railways around the globe.

Right: A late-night First Capital Connect train speeds past Ferme Park on September 22 2011, as East Coast 91110, set to star at Railfest, awaits its next duty. JACK BOSKETT/RAIL.

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❚ Change of HS1 from passenger only to mixed use, and European freight services using the line.

We plan for a hot topic area to run for a year, but with changeable elements. This will allow us to keep pace with press stories and industry developments, and maintain interest for repeat visitors.

We will always draw on our archives and collection to contextualise the stories. For example, when referring to HS2, we would draw upon historic evidence of 19th century attitudes to railway construction, and the debates that took place then… to demonstrate that controversy over new railways is nothing new!

Engagement with the Modern Industry The changing programme will support our engagement with the modern industry. For the gallery to be a success, we will need access to industry support and expertise – for example, understanding topics such as HS2 from an insider’s perspective.

We recognise that, at the moment, we cannot offer a particular zone to talk about the modern industry, and the modern industry does not always want to be associated with the railways of the past.

We know that companies are keen to work with us, to highlight rail travel as a mode of transport. They are keen to present themselves as ‘employer of choice’ and to emphasize the opportunities the railway

Above: The busy nature of today’s railway is perfectly illustrated at Clapham Junction on March 27, as Southern and South West Trains services carry passengers to and from London. A GB Railfreight Class 73 locomotive can also be seen on the far left.

JACK BOSKETT/RAIL. creates for businesses.

We have worked successfully with industry partners in the past. Prior to Railfest 2012, we developed the Once Upon a Tide exhibition in 2010 in partnership with Abellio, and the updated IECC live signalbox link in our permanent galleries in partnership with Network Rail. We have also received excellent industry support for Railfest 2012.

The exhibition We have not yet begun design work. We need to carry out detailed research with industry partners to enable us to reach the next stage of planning.

However, we can safely say that the gallery will make use of a variety of interpretive techniques and will present people, their ideas, aspirations and concerns – be they a company chief executive, a government minister or a commuter. We will present advances in technology and logistics, and explore potential impacts.

We will explore ways to engage with visitors – gaining audience responses and public perceptions to modern topics would be beneficial to us, as well as being influential to our partners.

We will build digital media into the exhibition, to ensure that updates are simple and seamless, and to allow the presentation of rich media – for example, 3D virtual models of new rolling stock designs.

How do I get involved?

We are currently seeking potential partners who would be willing to financially support the Modern Gallery. If you would like to find out more about the project, and how we can work in partnership, please contact our Development Team on 01904 686285 or email charlotte. hughes@nrm.org.uk

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The National Railway M A packed programme of activities at historic North-East railway venue

he National Railway Museum, Shildon celebrates Shildon’s history as one of the first and greatest railway towns in the world, and has on display more than 70 historic vehicles from the National Collection.

The museum is situated on the route of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, the world’s first publicly subscribed railway. The official opening of the S&DR took place at Shildon on September 27, 1825, when George and Robert Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 hauled the world’s first passenger-carrying train on a public railway.

The S&DR’s first locomotive superintendent was Timothy Hackworth, who maintained its locomotives at Shildon’s Soho Works. The campus of the National Railway Museum, Shildon encompasses the Soho Works along with Timothy Hackworth’s former home.

Timothy Hackworth’s Sans Pareil was built in Shildon for the famous 1829 Rainhill Trials on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, and this original locomotive is now on display at the museum.

The museum site features a large, modern Collection Building, where visitors can view iconic locomotive such as British Rail’s APT-E and the prototype Deltic. This buildAbove: ‘The Rooket’ by ing also contains the NRM Michael Lusz – one of the Conservation Workshop, where pieces displayed in the a range of railway restoration Jan-March 2012 Cluster Arts and conservation projects can exhibition be viewed.

Visitor figures have increased incrementally over the past three years - in 2011/2012, the museum welcomed more than 210,000 people.

With a busy and varied programme of events and exhibitions, the National Railway Museum, Shildon aims to offer something for everyone.

Key events from 2011/2012 included the Early Days of Steam Railway Gala in May, and linking Â

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Inset left: Carolyn Corfield’s ‘Bowl 1’, one of a series of works displayed in the Cluster Arts exhibition (Jan-Mar 2011).

Left: Railway volunteer Jean Roberts tries her hand at making trimmings at an MIC session, supervised by Rail Ops & Workshop Manager Richard Pearson At the Deltic 50 Event in October 2011 are (left to right): D9015 Tulyar, prototype Deltic and D9009 Alycidon

Above: Apprentice Johnny Molloy carries out restoration work in our Conservation Workshop.

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Above: Volunteers from Shildon Model Railway Club with their ‘Shildon’ OO-gauge model railway layout.

Below: Working replicas of Rocket and Locomotion at our May 2011 Early Days of Steam gala.

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with NRM York on special steam shuttle trains between the two sites in September.

Shildon also hosted a celebration weekend in October that marked the 50th anniversary of the introduction of British Rail Class 55 Deltics to the East Coast Main Line - the HRA Rail Express Modern Traction Award was given to the Deltic Preservation Society for its work with the museum and the East Lancashire Railway on the project.

June saw a visit to the museum from popular children’s characters Peppa Pig and George. And from January to March, The National Railway Museum, Shildon hosted a major exhibition by North Eastbased contemporary artists Cluster Arts. This exhibition explored the museum site’s role in the development of the railways.

Locomotion offers a range of educational activities for groups of all descriptions - from nurseries and schools to community and tertiary education associations. Our NRM Conservation Workshop also provides training opportunities for apprentices and placement students wishing to learn engineering skills.

Plus - thanks to a unique partnership between Darlington College, Trackwork Training and the National Railway Museum, Shildon - the museum is used as a training venue for students following a recognised NVQ route to working on the railways, through the City & Guilds Permanent Way Renewals course.

The National Railway Museum, Shildon actively encourages community engagement, with a wide variety of clubs and societies enjoying close links with the museum.

Volunteers from Shildon Model Railway Club regularly display and demonstrate club model railway layouts to museum visitors, while the Friends of the National Railway Museum (North East branch) has recently worked with the museum team on a new display that explores the history of coal transportation in the area, and which features the last MGR wagon to be built at Shildon Wagon Works.

The museum also has an active volunteer programme, with more

than 70 local people regularly taking a hands-on role at the museum on a voluntary basis. Our volunteers are involved in all areas of activity, from getting hands-on in our NRM Conservation Workshop to assisting with the delivery of craft activities for families during the school holidays.

Our working railway, which offers visitors the chance to enjoy a steam train ride on our 1km running line on key event dates throughout the year, is also supported by volunteers. The museum invests significant resources to support these volunteers, organising regular classroom-based Mutual Improvement Classes on a range of railway-related topics, along with practical training and external assessment for volunteers wishing to be steam locomotive drivers and firemen, diesel drivers, guards or shunters.

Looking ahead, 2012/2013 promises to be another exciting year at The National Railway Museum, Shildon. In this Diamond Jubilee Year, a new display of the Royal Train of Queen Alexandra (wife of Edward VII) is providing a popular draw both for visiting school groups and for families. This autumn, there will also be a new display exploring the famous Races to the North.

Along with a vibrant calendar of events - from our Spring Steam Gala, which celebrates Industrial Steam, to our Awesome Activities programme of free family fun - there is sure to be something for everyone at the National Railway Museum, Shildon!

Left: NRM Workshop Volunteer Trevor Addison and apprentice Jason Brown, photographed by Graeme Rowatt for the Jan-March 2012 Cluster Arts exhibition.

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Deltic 50 event in October 2011: (From left) prototype Deltic, D9009 Alycidon, 55022 Royal Scots Grey, D9015 Tulyar.

Right: Rail Ops & Workshop Manager Richard Pearson on 70013 Oliver Cromwell at a Locomotion Steam Gala event.

Below: (from left) FNRM NE Chairman Dave Camp; Cllr Brian Stephens from DCC/Shildon & Bishop Auckland AAP; FNRM Chairman Frank Paterson - with representatives from Locomotion, FNRM NE and Shildon Town Council at the launch of the MGR wagon display in April 2012.

Above: Railway volunteers gather for a Mutual Improvement Class.

Right: Darlington College principal Tim Grant presents a certiďŹ cate to railway apprentice Tramaine Williamson, 21, of Darlington.

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Play your part in railway history Here at the National Railway Museum we are very proud to be recognised as the world’s leading railway museum and the most visited museum outside London with over 800,000 visitors each year.

Our visitors come from all over the world because they are fascinated by our collections and the story they represent.

As a national charity, we rely on the support of people young and old to preserve and care for our collections now and for the generations to come.

One way of supporting our work is to leave a gift to the National Railway Museum in your Will. A legacy gift of any size really does make a huge difference to our work and the future of the Museum.

As a Railway Magazine reader, we know that you care as much about our railway heritage as we do, so if and when the time is right for you to include a legacy in your Will, please remember us.

The National Railway Museum Development Team • Leeman Road • York • YO26 4XJ • 01904 686 285